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...expanding and revitalizing the CIA that Casey's bitterest critics admit has been highly impressive. During the 1970s, revulsion over some of the agency's early operations prompted cuts of 40% in the agency's budget and 50% in its staff. At the end of the Carter Administration, policymakers were receiving intelligence estimates at the lethargic rate of one a month...
There are some flaws in this record. What the CIA calls "human intelligence" has not yet recovered from the savage staff cuts carried out during the Carter Administration by Casey's predecessor, Stansfield Turner, who preferred to collect intelligence by electronic means. Casey did not have a single agent on Grenada until a few days before the American invasion last October, and could not provide an accurate estimate of the number of Cubans on the island. Casey takes special joy in having revived covert operations. He is said to have made several trips in unmarked planes to Honduras...
Meese served as president and the only salaried director of the Presidential Transition Foundation Inc., set up to plan the transfer of executive power from the Carter Administration to Reagan's team. The other directors were William Casey, now CIA director, and Verne Orr, now Secretary of the Air Force. In addition to receiving $2 million in operating expenses from the Government and $250,000 from the President's campaign treasury, the foundation raised $688,931 from unidentified private donors, according to its tax return. No limit was set on the amount people could donate, but Orr said...
...object to Haig's use of the word obsequiousness in referring to Jimmy Carter. The former President's quiet way of attaining his goals is preferable to Haig's belligerence...
...city. I loved living here and being so close to the seat of power, being part of the political system." It is not hard to guess that the city is Washington, D.C., but the identity of the speaker might come as a surprise to those who thought of Rosalynn Carter, 56, as a down-home sort of woman who was never comfortable with the insider preening and cosseting that embroider life in the nation's capital. In town last week to see old friends and attend a signing party for her new book, First Lady from Plains (which will...